CHRAPOWICKI Jan Antoni - Dyaryusz wojewody witepski...1845

CHRAPOWICKI Jan Antoni. Dyaryusz wojewody witepskiego...jako przyczynek do dziejow z czasow Jana Kazimierza, Michala Wiszniowieckiego i Jana Sobieskiego, krolow polskich, wydany z autentyku przez J.Rusiecki z Trojanki. Warsaw 1845. embossed at Jozef Ungra. Pp. XLVIII, [4], 332; 19.5cm.

Hardcover full leather with embossing on faces and spine, gilt page edges, retained chromolithographed booklet covers. Good condition, rubbing of binding, minor loosening of block, facsimile plate missing.

Maliszewski 318. J. A. Chrapowicki (d. ca. 1685) - diarist, Vitebsk voivode, royal secretary. "Diary" (published only in fragments) is Chrapowicki's most significant work; "the greatest value in it is the descriptions of the Sejm [...]. He [the author] scattered throughout the diary numerous loose details about contemporary people, customs and personal affairs" (PSB).

"This work was printed in 1845 in the Warsaw lithography of J.V. Olecka, which makes it currently the oldest chromolithographed Polish cover known to us!" (Jan Straus, Now the Cover!, Vol. 1, pp. 51-52).

Book from the book collection of Aleksander Czolowski. A special piece one of two dedicated to the brothers by publisher Jozef Rusiecki.

Text fully chromolithographed? gilded? - a unique piece!

Aleksander Czolowski (1865-1944) - Polish historian, antiquarian, archivist, director of the Historical Museum of Lviv and the National Museum in Lviv.